America is the name of a whole continent. United States of America means that the United States belongs to America and NOT that America belongs to the United States. So, next time you want to refer to The United States of America, you can do it as U.S. or the States or whatever you want but not as only America. Gotcha?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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Let the world know that USA should not be called America! America is one whole continent.
Comments (1251)
We did it!!! Now Change.org is going to give more promotion to the petition.
Resulta increíble pensar que David Morgan ni siquiera esperaba que 20 votaran. He is now opening his eyes!!!
He should admit he was "very" wrong.
:)
David is the typical United Statian. He would rather be dishonest than admit that he has lost.
509 signatures WOW, so it wasn't 3 cats as he suggested
https://www.change.org/americacontinent
It is wrong to call United Statians as Gringos or Americans.
it's also wrong to call us Yankees
Cubans and Spaniards don’t commonly refer to Americans as ‘americanos’.
‘Las Américas’ doesn’t exist in Spanish.
It does.
The word ‘America’ was created by a native speaker of a Romance language, so Latinos have “more rights” to the word.
Canadians do have More Rights to the 2 words …
America (the name) and American (the demonym) …
… MORE THAN the country of United States as well!!!
Canadians get to have as many rights as Latinos do!!!
‘America’ originally referred to all of the Americas.
Only Americans call themselves Americans. Only Americans call their country America.
‘America’ is not a word.
BraZiLIAns DoN’T caLL AMEriCans “aMEricAnOS”